Posts Tagged With: Hubris

a sea of humanity

 

“Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever
in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.”

 

~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~

 

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Digitally enhanced image created from a photo of art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.


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TOUR DE BABEL

 

“A bottomless pit of violence, a Tower of Babel
where all are speakers and no hearers.”

 

~ Alexander Smith ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a photo taken in Paris in June 2018.


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TOUR DE BABEL

 

“A bottomless pit of violence,
a Tower of Babel where all
are speakers and no hearers.”

 

~ Alexander Smith ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in Paris in June 2018.


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NEMESIS

 

“History has a Nemesis for every sin.”

 

~ Theodor Mommsen ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of street art taken in Paris in May 2017.


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SMALL HANDS

 

“Trump’s America is brutal, perverse, regressive, insular and afraid.
There is no hope in it; there is no light in it.
It is a vast expanse of darkness and desolation.”

 

~ Charles M. Blow ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from a crop of an original photo of street art taken in Mainz Kastel, Germany in July 2017.


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A SEA OF HUMANITY

 

“Anyone who believes exponential growth
can go on forever in a finite world
is either a madman or an economist.”

 

~ Kenneth E. Boulding ~

 

Digitally enhanced image created from an original photo of art on a preserved section of the Berlin Wall taken in Berlin in January 2018.


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RUINS

 

“It is grand to contemplate the ruins of cities;
but it is grander still to contemplate the ruins of human beings!”

 

~ Comte de Lautréamont ~

 

000-ruinsDigitally enhanced image created from an original photo taken in April 1981.


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